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Acrolepiopsis tauricella is a moth of the family Acrolepiidae. It is found Italy, Switzerland, Hungary and Ukraine.[1]

Acrolepiopsis tauricella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Acrolepiidae
Genus:	Acrolepiopsis
Species:	A. tauricella
Binomial name
Acrolepiopsis tauricella (Staudinger, 1870)
Synonyms
Acrolepia tauricella Staudinger, 1870 Acrolepia karolyii Szocs, 1969 Acrolepia similella Muller-Rutz, 1920

The larvae feed on Tamus communis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Young larvae make one or two small full depth blotch mines. Most frass is ejected out of the mine though an opening in a corner of the mine. Older larvae live freely under the leaf, but keep using the mine as a shelter during feeding pauses. In this stage they cause window feeding or skeleton feeding. There are several mines in a single leaf.[2] The larvae have a pale yellowish green body and head.

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